Abstract / Summary

Accurately measuring the audience response during a performance is a difficult task. This is particularly thecase for connected performances. In this paper, we staged a connected performance in which a remoteaudience enjoyed the performance in real-time. Both objective (galvanic skin response and behaviours) andsubjective (interviews) responses from the live and remote audience members were recorded. To capturegalvanic skin response, a group of self-built sensors was used to record the electrical conductance of the skin.The results of the measurements showed that both the live and the remote audience members had a similarresponse to the connected performance even though more vivid artistic artefacts had a stronger effect on thelive audience. Some technical issues also influenced the experience of the remote audience. In conclusion wefound that the remoteness had little influence on the connected performance.